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by pumaontheprowl 1609 days ago
Well in this case he's signalling support for censorship, so you can't really call that virtuous.
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There are people out there who care more about the truth and acknowledge that such a thing exists than giving every crazy person a megaphone.

If we want to live in a circus where people who have no idea what they're talking about get to disseminate lies while thousands of people die preventable deaths every day we've lost our collective minds.

Is he though? He asked them to remove JRE or remove his catalog. He's exercising his choice to remove himself from the platform because he doesn't want to be associated with Spotify and the people they employ.

Supporting censorship would be more along the lines of asking the government to jail Rogan, erasing his content, etc.

Spotify has actually removed certain JRE episodes from the available catalog as a condition of their deal.[1]

[1]: https://nypost.com/2021/04/09/spotify-quietly-deletes-contro...

If Joe Rogan had the head of NAMBLA on and leant him a sympathetic ear would you have Rogans back?